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My Old Files #2: El Astronauta 2002

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El astronauta.


De niño, una vez imaginó que su habitación tenía una puerta oculta. Y que esa puerta, después de teclear un código en el sistema de acceso te cedía el paso a una gran base secreta.
La base mostraba siempre una gran actividad, el numeroso personal se afanaba en una indeterminada labor, los operarios se movían entre los grandes ordenadores y de vez en cuando se les veía comentar entre ellos los datos frente a un monitor.
En el enorme complejo, compuesto por numerosas salas, los corredores convergían hacia un pabellón central, una gigantesca sala circular presidida por una pantalla que ocupaba la totalidad de las paredes. El espacio resultaba de una mezcla entre el interior de un submarino y la sala de control en tierra del Apolo XII, tal y como recordaba haberla visto en la televisión. Cuando su padre y él accedían al complejo por la puerta escondida de su dormitorio, toda aquella tecnología se ponía a su servicio. Los agentes secretos les leían sus informes y él se sentaba frente a un monitor y allí se quedaba, observando atentamente.



Al crecer, una vez también se sintió observado.

Mientras caminaba recordó un reciente programa de televisión en el que se afirmaba que el primer alunizaje del Apolo XII habia sido un montaje. Volvió a ver los rostros expectantes de los técnicos de la base en tierra, atentos a los monitores en los momentos previos al primer paso de un ser humano sobre la superficie en blanco y negro de la luna. Y se acordó del laboratorio fantasma que de pequenho guardaba tras la puerta. Tenia ahora treinta y dos años, los mismos que habían pasado desde aquella odisea espacial que ahora algunos consideraban falsa.

Se hizo de noche y una cámara móvil de vigilancia seguía a unos jovenes borrachos. El círculo de luz infrarroja haría mostrar una calle iluminada como la luna en alguna lejana pantalla. Los tres corrían alrededor del poste que sujetaba la cámara y el vigilante se esmeraba en alcanzarlos con el objetivo. Al desaparecer la juerga entre gritos por una de las bocacalles, el sistema de vigilancia fijo en él su luz invisible. Desde lo alto la cámara le miraba, enviando su imagen de astronauta a algun centro invisible de control.

Le era imposible determinar cual era la importantísima labor que se desarrollaba tras la puerta secreta de su habitación. Ahora, al recordar su suenho, se reconoció en la silenciosa mirada que le examinaba al otro lado de la cámara. Alguien, en alguno de los edificios de los centros financieros que le rodeaban, había accedido por otra entrada a las terminales de su refugio secreto, y le observaba atentamente, iluminado por la luz intermitente de los monitores. Volvió a imaginar que con el tiempo, su gran base secreta había crecido multiplicándose en todas las direcciones hasta dispersarse tras una explosión en un número infinito de pequenhos nodos, emulando un modelo divino de perspectiva capaz de comprender la totalidad de los puntos de vista posibles. Se imaginó a si mismo como un astronauta en un decorado fingiendo la falta de gravedad mediante teatrales saltos. A modo de bandera clavó el paraguas con el logotipo de su empresa en el centro de una pequenha jardinera.

No halló en su camino a casa un lugar en el que descansar del frío en la espalda, del frío en la frente, en el pecho y en las manos que producía el cristal helado de las cámaras, el círculo de luz infraroja y el zumbido electrónico de los servomotores.

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My old files #1: Optic Trees 2002

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Music Visualisation Machine

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Max Ernst Reloaded: Jung-Yeon Min

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http://www.nastplas.com/blog/?p=1433

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Haiku

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I am raising now

a dead butterfly

with no make-up

 

 

Cat Power singing a Haiku from George Seferis in 2003...
The video is totally random but I like it.

"Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories" is a collection of poems by George Seferis, translated from their original Greek into English, set to music, and then performed by a guest cast some of the great, good & obscure from the alternate music scene of Western Europe & America. Read More

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Egosearch surprise +

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Another google egosearch finding.

http://www.outonofotografico.com/2000/expo/natural1.html

What you can see here it was a very large print-out that I (if I remember well) glued to the exhibition wall. This is a picture of my old bonsay, that I place in the window of my room at Kingsland road, facing east, the buildings in the background are a group of council estates in the heart of Hackney. The picture was took with a crappy webcam attached to my computer (640x400 resolution).

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Moon

 0 Comments- Add comment Written on 27-Aug-2010 by albertob

Micro-casual videoclip filmed at home (from the sofa in a full moon day).
The music is the soundtrack of the game I was playing.

Moon from alberto barreiro on Vimeo.

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Inframince

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"when the tobacco smoke smells also of the/mouth which exhales it, the two odors/marry by inframince". Marcel Duchamp.

Inframince from alberto barreiro on Vimeo.



The shadow of the blinds in my office in a windy and cloudy day and the lines of my notebook also marry by inframince

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Metastar II

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Based on the previous post, I decided to move Lindsay into the realm of the alternative realities, transforming her into a character of a nonexistent Richard Linklater movie:

 

Lindsay K. is a Hollywood actress and one of the most popular faces on screen.
When trying to isolate herself in a remote island, she receives a script from an unknown producer. The role was about an actress that falls in a spiral of paranoia and self-destruction after the death of her best friend, also an actress.
She reads a few pages and told her agent that despite the offer, she wasn't interested in playing the role.
From that day she felt things were not quite the same (animated rotoscoped sequences start here).
A few days after, she goes back to LA just to find out that Brit, her best friend, was dead.

.... it will continue

 

 

 

 


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Waking Life

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The view of the skeptical. Waking Life, Richard Linklate, 2001

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Self-Inception

 3 Comments- Add comment Written on 03-Aug-2010 by albertob

Quick thought:

We all all incepted with a myth. An archetypical idea that is implanted deeply in our subconsciousness.

We spend our lives trying to embody that myth.


My myth is the West.

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Metastar

 0 Comments- Add comment Written on 03-Aug-2010 by albertob

For some reason I'm fascinated by the look of Lindsay Lohan in court.
She never looked more beautiful.

She crossed the boundaries between fiction and reality in the most dangerous way, developing a self destructive character. Transforming herself in her own degenerating portrait, like an inverse version of Dorian Gray.
It looks like Lindsay is testing the limits of herself as a representation. In fiction nobody dies, it's a simulacrum. Maybe that's why some stars living in a world that doesn't differ much from the ones in the movies, tend to believe that everything is unreal, therefore they won't die.
Someone has to take the heroic task of proving the solidity, the rules and consistency of reality, and that's what she is doing.

Like Mal, Cobb's wife in Inception, she is not sure if she is living the real life, she enters a self destructive spiral and kills herself in order to go back to reality.

Going to jail is a way of proving the consequence of the acts in real life, maybe that will be enough, maybe not.

We, as spectators of the Lohan Show, are a key ingredient to the mix, a "broadcasted" life is not an autonomous life anymore. Every single act becomes a representation in the very moment it is performed, the end result is that she becomes an actress representing her own life, she is her mirrored reflection, made of nothing but light. I suspect that under this circumstances, the subject will be trying to regain ownership of their missing identity, like Truman did.
What are the tactics to break the spell? self-destruction until crashing with the boundaries of that layer of reality?

I don't know... but today she is my hero.

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Shifting Realities

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Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?


99 ways of shifting realities: 

in not particular order:

  1. Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland
  2. The Mirror
  3. Inception
  4. Brazil
  5. Dreamscape
  6. Synecdoche, New York
  7. A Scanner Darkly
  8. Strange Days
  9. The Wizard of Oz
  10. The 5000 Fingers of Dr.T
  11. Pan's Labyrinth
  12. Performance
  13. The Fall
  14. Tron
  15. Lost Highway
  16. The 13th Floor
  17. Memento
  18. Dark City
  19. Primer
  20. The Cell
  21. Altered States
  22. Naked Lunch
  23. Abre Los Ojos
  24. Hellraiser
  25. A Nightmare on Elm Street
  26. ExistenZ
  27. The Matrix
  28. The Science of Sleep
  29. Life on Mars
  30. Mirrormask
  31. Spellbound
  32. Total Recall
  33. Avatar
  34. Waking Life
  35. Fight Club
  36. Solaris
  37. Stalker
  38. Nostalgia
  39. Requiem for a Dream
  40. Jacobs Ladder
  41. Flatliners
  42. In Dreams
  43. Being John Malkcovich
  44. Adaptation
  45. Vanilla Sky
  46. Flight of the Navigator
  47. The Machinist
  48. Pi
  49. Donnie Darko
  50. Brainstorm (Cypher)
  51. Science of Sleep
  52. The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
  53. I Huckabees
  54. NeverEnding Story
  55. Labyrinth
  56. Je t'aime, je t'aime
  57. 8 1/2
  58. Matter of Life and Death
  59. Where the Wild Things Are
  60. City of the Lost Children
  61. Heavenly Creatures
  62. Futureworld
  63. Paprika
  64. Un Soir, Un Train
  65. American Psycho
  66. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  67. Belle de Jour
  68. The Serpent and The Rainbow
  69. Coraline
  70. Identity
  71. The Fountain
  72. Don't Look Now
  73. Vertigo
  74. Last Year in Marienbad
  75. La Jetèe
  76. Twelve Monkeys
  77. Twin Peaks
  78. Taxi Driver
  79. Blade Runner
  80. Ninth Configuration
  81. Shutter Island
  82. Eraserhead
  83. Living In Oblivion
  84. Until The End of the World
  85. Audition
  86. Spirited Away
  87. Inland Empire
  88. Beetlejuice
  89. Hour of the Wolf
  90. Le Sang d'un poete
  91. Ghost in The Shell
  92. Perfect Blue
  93. Lawnmower Man
  94. Bridge to Terabithia
  95. The Prestige
  96. Minority Report
  97. Truman Show
  98. Paperhouse
  99. The Game

 

 

Note: I compiled list after watching Inception a couple of days ago. I used to collect films on this topic, many of those are in the list above, now lost on some dreamed past.
They are about dreams, virtual reality, movies in movies, worlds in worlds, psychosis, multiple identities, layered simultaneous universes, the blurry boundaries of our knowledge, the uncertain limits between the subject and its representation, the ductility of reality, the unsettling doubt.

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Synchronicity day

 3 Comments- Add comment Written on 23-Jul-2010 by albertob

One of these days

10:48 AM

- Sightings of pictures of Brigitte Bardot: 3

- Hearings of Elkie Brooks' Lilac Wine: 2

... and counting

Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?

 


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13-Nov-2009 - 23:10

my friend Bet just tell me about Marcel Duchamp... it´s a very interesting artist.
In the line of your domestic adventures...

(sorry for my poor english)

28-May-2009 - 16:42

yeah! I understand your comments guys!
well, nice!...
I will read often the crazy domestic adventures of RandomBoy for practice my english.

albertob wrote:
28-May-2009 - 11:00

I am not crazy, I am random

chickerino wrote:
28-May-2009 - 10:52

Lago, you are correct. Alberto is crazy!!! jajajajajaa

albertob wrote:
28-May-2009 - 10:48

Hi Iago, thanks!! I am not going to correct you in public. I'll send you an email. Don't take to seriously my grammar, it's a real mess.

I am glad you find my "Chapter 1" interesting.

27-May-2009 - 16:50

Hi Alberto!

The next week I will travel to Sevilla. I have an english exam and my english it´s little... it´s an importan exam but no more dificult...
Read your blog, in special yours "Chapters ones", are more interesting for training and practice, because a formal study is very bored!

I´m learning a lot of vocabulary but I think that you are some crazy...

(if there are anything wrong, please correct me!)

02-Dec-2008 - 10:57

AB - the Singing Designer, lovely to hear your tuneful voice!

bosh wrote:
26-Sep-2008 - 17:08

Love the new homepage mate! Great work. On the random question. I also don't believe in random. Rather that life is semi random... You walk almost the same route to work every day but never the exact same route.

26-Sep-2008 - 14:26

A present from Brand 3.0...

alberto

albertob wrote:
22-Sep-2008 - 14:53

what a reputation!

I am not a "picaflor", I am an honest worshipper of beauty.



 
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